I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when...

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

I believed that one had to stop the machinery of war.

Where we see corruption and can make a case against it, we're being aggressive.

Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just...

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

Until I was about eight or nine, I had no awareness he was anybody special. Since all our friends were in the movement, I thought what Daddy did was natural. Everybody went to jail, right? Then, one...

I count myself as a feminist. I'm a vegan, so I believe in animal rights. I stand behind the Black Lives Matter here in the US. I want to help wherever I can.

I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all...

We were the underground reporters.

There's social media where people's politics are out there, they're forwarding articles and seem engaged, but it's only online. We tweet and pat ourselves on the back, thinking we have done something,...

We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.

I believe GamerGate is at its core a positive movement that fights against obvious corruption in journalism and the tech industry.

For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.

No one wants police brutality. No one wants inequality. But what I worry about it is when a protest becomes so large and the noise takes over that the original motivation for the protest and the...

First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the '80s, I am guilty of...

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

In 1986, I had gone on a hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan rooting for an alternative land for slum dwellers. My mother got very nervous and told my father to tell me that, 'what am I doing?' He...

I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody...

I'm not a fan of the #DeleteFacebook campaign. I think that they can reform.

I've always felt that activism and art go hand in hand.

I've had a lot of jobs and titles while working in politics. But at the end of the day, one thing has always stayed the same: I'm an activist. And as an activist, it's important to have people to look...

I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of the population being passionately active in that.

Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we...